askhistorians

Title	Upvotes	Mark as read	Favorited	Rating	Add to a list
During the Jim Crow Era, did Lost Cause Intellectuals and/or politicians attempt to prevent the public from reading the CSA Declarations of Secession since those documents are good refutations to the myth that the US Civil War wasn't about slavery?	49
How historically accurate is Dennis Prager's video "Why Isn't Communism as Hated as Nazism?"?	47
My APUSH textbook said Adlai Stevenson "had a reputation as an honest politician in a state (Illinois) where Democrats were often corrupt." What made Illinois Democrats especially corrupt around the time of the 1952 Election? How did Stevenson interacted with said corrupt Democrats?	39
In European Warfare in the Middle Ages, how advantageous was it to have the high ground?	36
At r/TIL, there is a post trending with people in the comments section saying the FBI sent a letter telling Martin Luther King Jr. to kill himself and the FBI/CIA later killed him. Is this true?	36
Is there any evidence movies and TV shows such as Dirty Harry contributed to the lack of support for victims of police brutality?	35
In John Irving's novel A Prayer for Owen Meany, the first person narrator, John Wheelwright, says the average American in the late 1980's did not care about Iran-Contra and other controversial aspects of Ronald Reagan and his administration. Is this an accurate statement?	34
Is it true that the only two successful cities that were placed in the middle of a desert were Petra and Las Vegas?	29
What was Bernie Sanders like as the Mayor of Burlington, Vermont? For example, what did he accomplish as mayor and how did the citizens of Burlington view him?	28
What was everyday life like for LGBT people in Colonial North America?	26

« < > »